Audio Book Description:
All children mythologize their birth... So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter`s beloved collection of stories, long famous for the mysteryof the missing thirteenth tale.The enigmatic Winter has always kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old andailing, she summons a biographerto tell the truth about her extraordinary life: Margaret Lea, a young woman forwhom the secret of her own birth remains an ever present pain.Disinterring the life she meantto bury for good, Vida mesmerizes Margaret with the power of her storytelling. Hersis a tale of gothic strangeness,featuring the Angelfield family- including the beautifuland willful Isabelle, and the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline- a ghost, a governess,and a devastating fire. Struck by a curious parall between their stories, Margaret demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghoststhat have haunted them.
